Course: Foreign Language - English

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Course title Foreign Language - English
Course code CJV/CJ5
Organizational form of instruction Tutorial
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Atcheson Hana, Mgr.
  • Šmajdlerová Simona, Mgr.
Course content
The class covers topics from the textbook Open Mind Intermediate, Units 1-3. Grammar: - Present perfect simple and continuous - Expressing the past with used to and past perfect - Indirect questions Vocabulary: - Experience, learning, gaining skills - Personal goals and plans - Memories, life changes and experiences - Personal characteristics - Shoping, customer services and adverts

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming), Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book), Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization), Practice exercises, Students working in pairs
  • Participation in classes - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 15 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 19 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
This class is offered to students who have mastered English language skills at the pre-intermediate level, A2.
This class is offered to students who have mastered English language skills at the pre-intermediate level, A2.
learning outcomes
After the course students have English language knowledge minimum at B1 level or higher in: - Present perfect simple and continuous - Expressing the past with used to and past perfect - Indirect questions - English vocabulary used to express types of experience, learning, gaining skills, personal goals and plans, memories, life changes and experiences, personal characteristics, shoping, customer services and adverts
After the course students have English language knowledge minimum at B1 level or higher in: - Present perfect simple and continuous - Expressing the past with used to and past perfect - Indirect questions - English vocabulary used to express types of experience, learning, gaining skills, personal goals and plans, memories, life changes and experiences, personal characteristics, shoping, customer services and adverts
Skills
After the course students have ability to: - Express oneself in writing and speaking a limited way in familiar situations and to deal in a general way with non-routine information. - Actively develop their knowledge of grammar and extend their vocabulary at intermediate level B1. - Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. and they can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
After the course students have ability to: - Express oneself in writing and speaking a limited way in familiar situations and to deal in a general way with non-routine information. - Actively develop their knowledge of grammar and extend their vocabulary at intermediate level B1. - Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. and they can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
teaching methods
Knowledge
Practice exercises
Students working in pairs
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Practice exercises
Students working in pairs
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization)
Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization)
assessment methods
Preparation of a presentation
Preparation of a presentation
Analysis of the student's performance
Analysis of the student's performance
Grade (Using a grade system)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Recommended literature
  • Johnston, Olivia. Test your vocabulary 3. Harlow, Essex : Pearson Education Limited, 2002. ISBN 058245168X.
  • Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar In Use. Cambridge.
  • Redman, Stuart. English Vocabulary in Use, pre-intermediate and intermediate. CUP.
  • Rogers, Mickey et al. Open Mind Intermediate. London, 2014. ISBN 978-0 230 45830 7.


Study plans that include the course
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